Recent Viewing Part IV

Absolutely. Best season starter since....well, since the reboot (and quite, quite grim!).

[spoiler]Oh, and neither do I .[/spoiler]

You old grumpy!
It was a fantastic episode that held my interest throughout and I loved both the guitar [spoiler]and the tank.
The Master is back to old 'Saxon' form (utterly, deeply disturbingly mad), the mood of the episode was truly eerie in old 'pre-reboot' style, and the spin on that old philosophical potboiler "if you could travel back in time, would you kill baby Hitler?" was just excellent!

Incidentally, did anyone else catch they were on Skaro well before the reveal because of the prison design?
Or am I showing some particularly geeky qualities here?
yeah. OK. Don't answer that.
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Very, very good gambit for the new season, and I'm more excited than I've been since Ten left!

I agree, not sure why it's received such tepid reviews. I saw it last night and thought it was terrific. I was engrossed throughout, found it very moving and thought it tapped into that crazy part of the human psyche that pushes us to do such insane things.

I still do wonder how Davros is alive, though? Hasn't he been killed off several times in the series' run?

Same goes for "Missy", who died in the last season. I wonder who she is supposed to be? An incarnation of Rani? That would be cool -- I don't think she has been portrayed in the WHO reboot yet. Would be a fitting tribute, since Kate O'Mara passed away last year.

And he'll be killed off again. Definitively. Irrevocably.

Until the next time.



Aaaaah, but it was suggested that she DIDN'T die (as was indeed pretty clear already from last season's finale when it was pretty obvious she used the teleporter rather than was blasted. Poor brigadier. Even in death he is ineffectual.).
While completely expected, I *did* like the suggestion that [spoiler]the Doctor knew she wasn't dead and had been lying[/spoiler]!

Jurassic Yawn was pretty terrible. These films are getting worse and worse and worse with each new chapter. BTW, I'm a Lost World and JPIII sympathizer. And the score is such a utter disappointment. Besides the Raptor March I didn't find anything memorable or interesting.

-Erik-

The Williams cameos were worse than the original score.

And I wasn't entertained by the movie whatsoever. It bored me. I didn't give a flying fadoo about any of the cardboard characters or the 20,000 other people on the park threatened by cheap looking CGI Dino's.

-Erik-

You underestimate the power of... GOOGLE TRANSLATE!
And yeah, I pretty much agree with everything you write.

I loved them. The opening sequence when they enter the park, in particular, gave me goosebumps galore -- more to do with the power of recognition than the actual sequence, perhaps, but still. It seemed edited perfectly to the synch points of Williams' theme. Also loved the small hints of the themes throughout. A rare glimpse of pleasure in an otherwise dire action score.

Didn't feel that forced to me, because it was edited so elegantly. Like a music video.

I'm talking about the film editing in that sequence, synched to Williams' theme, not the music editing from old to new (which I agree felt a bit jarring).

I presume you mean its integration with the practical effects of animatronics.

Though mind blowing at the time there are a number of CGI shots that look very "blancmange", particularly obvious in the Brachiosaur sequence.

Well, this all is pretty much like the Jaws series, isn't it? These are formula films and you can make only so much variations until it gets boring and ridiculous.

It's advanced leaps and bounds, but it's become (in many instances) a crutch rather than a tool. Jurassic World seems not to fair as well to Jurassic Park than one might think, given the amount of years separating them, simply because there's too much CGI in it. It's "CGI-World".

Had Jurassic World been made shot-for-shot in 1992/93, ignoring any practical limitations of the time, you'd soon notice how limited technology was at the time (relatively speaking).



Exactly. I think there's a total of 4 and half minutes of CGI? Its impact is in no small part due to its brevity.



Don't ever say that phrase again. It's stupid.

The Core (Jon Amiel, 2003)

Deeply sorry! silly disaster flick that's a bit like Jules Verne as rewritten by Michael Crichton in about three days. Load of old bollocks really but entertaining nonetheless, with an amusing turn by Stanley Tucci and one surprisingly gripping death scene in the form of [spoiler]Serge[/spoiler]. Perhaps the biggest disappointment here are the effects, which are surprisingly shoddy for a film that came out a decade after Jurassic Park - and there's not much creativity in the depiction of the center of the earth.

Main reason for watching this is Christopher Young's extremely robust and entertaining score, which lends heft to the entire thing, although there seemed to be quite a few differences between film and album. For instance, the electronics seemed far more prominently mixed within the film...odd.